Drunken Monkey

well, when you grow up and get a job, get yourself a ticket, fly over here and we can play.

and i could've sworn i saw the shidokan full contact people wear gloves in competition.

even in competition? fair enough BUT you don't allow hits to the head... and do you use elbows? or knees?

to be honest, i didn't relly pay much attention to the pic. i saw it was a wrestling thing and i just ignored it.

you don't seem to know a lot do you... next time, find out more. don't just base your comment on what you think you saw or heard said by one person.

then neither do you because when you go into your full contact, you are wearing gloves, pads, head gear etc etc.

so whay do they train sashe to the knee/calf/shin area? or kicks to the kidneys with their toes?

i always thought they yelled so people can't tell just how bad at acting they really are.

someone else do it this time...

how about another question? if you could chose to have one or the other "given" to you, which would you prefere? to be strong or to be tactical?

another question was there an old geezer in it that gets nosebleeds when exposed to um, females...?

hmmm, wonder if he can download the karma sultra...

shorin ryu... kinda leads to my next question. the characters for shorin ryu are the ones for shaolin kuen (in chinese). how closely are these related? again, feel free to ramble.

i was refering to being hit by a hockey puck.

hmmm, maybe i should borrow that one again...

i think we're keeping quiet about the adult stuff cos there are a lot of kids here. and oh god, coffee.... my little espresso pot is beyond cleaning. that little track of dried/burnt on coffee is about 2mm thick now!

midnight's children by salmon rushdie, it just weaves around and around and everytime you turn a page, a new thread is tied into the whole and the picture is that little bit closer to being complete. simply wonderful. funny, sad, magical.

but he doesn't really kick. it's the matrix representation of him who does the moves. the real neo is sitting in a chair, playing a complex computer game. think of the downlaoded martial arts as power ups.

maybe next time i'll let one of you guys point it out...

i hear a lot of guys here say that japanese karate is not as good as okinawan karate because it doesn't teach the classical, traditional, true (or whatever you want to call it) bunkai. but how much of this is true? what differences are there? why are there differences? when did these come about? is it a case of bad style or bad teachers? i'm after a history lesson here so feel free to ramble.

or perhaps it's because the puck, a very hard object, is travelling quite fast when it hits the poor guy? y'know, i don't need to know where to hit you in the chest, to kill you with a sledgehammer.

i think it becomes a style when a guy opens a school, charges money for it and wants to be differentiated from the rest...

once again. you have misunderstood my post. back to the romanisation. wing chun was developed in the canton region of china and later in hk. in this region, there are only two languages/dialects usedl cantonese and mandarin. in mandarin, wing chun is pronounced yong chwoon. in cantonese there is only one way of sounding it so really there shouldn't be any other way of spelling it. if you look at who uses the different spellings, it is only the people from yip man's school who chose to spell it differently. all of the other lines (hung suen, pan nam, yuen kay shan etc etc) use "wing chun". if any differences occir, don;t you think it should be from people who are not part of the yip man, clan? as for leung ting, maybe he is a bad example to use. too many stories about him and his organisation.

not a fetish but i drink way too much tea for my own good. it's like an addiction. i wake up and the first thing i do is put the kettle on. sometimes i go to wash the dishes and i still end up making a cup of tea first... it just happens.

that is a seriously funny film... but um, what did what mean? y'know, i didn't understand how the mouthy guy managed to last so long against ichi... hold on, you mean that last scene with mouthy dude in the cell? hmmm, y'know, i just put it down to japanese weirdness.